The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the Nat

The Players League, formed in 1890, was a short-lived professional baseball league controlled and owned in part by the players themselves, a response to the Nat

The last independent major league ended its brief run in 1915, after only two seasons at the national pastime’s top level. But no competitor to establishment

Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting hou

In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of